The Middle Kingdom Is Dead; Long Live A Global ChinaBy Dickson YeoIt’s one of the fundamental questions about China and its future place in the world: does the great civilization still view the world through the traditional lens of the Middle Kingdom or does the world face a new China, unbound by many of the structures under…

China’s Growing Military Presence Abroad Brings New ChallengesBy Harriet Moynihan & Dr. Wim Muller, Chatham House: “China's involvement in UN peacekeeping contributions has been on the rise for some time. China is also stepping up its own military and security operations abroad to protect its commercial and strategic interests, particularly in Africa. In doing so, China is exposing itself to a more complex set of issues – including international legal issues – with which it is only just starting to grapple."

Don’t hand China the economic crown just yetDesmond Lachman | The Hill China is hardly the first country that the US has feared might economically eclipse it. In the 1960s, it was a rising Russian economy that the US feared might outpace it. Then, in the 1980s, it was the Japanese economic miracle that caused the US to shudder.

The unpredictable rise of ChinaDaniel Blumenthal | The Atlantic Beijing has viewed the US as its chief geopolitical rival, yet official Washington has only recently awakened to this strategic competition. But as American observers start to see China’s ambitions more clearly, they have also misdiagnosed the challenges they pose.

The curious case of missing defaultsCarmen M. Reinhart | AEI Economics Working Paper Series An important new dimension in the latest global capital flow cycle is the surge in Chinese loans to developing countries, notably low-income commodity producers. A driver of China’s overseas lending boom is its larger global footprint, which helped stabilize global trade.